YESTERDAY …
10 years ago — Sept. 25, 2004
(As reported in the Bangor Daily News)
BREWER — The delay is over and the pressure is on this year’s high school freshman class.
During the next four years, this class of students will have to earn enough credits to graduate and they also will have to prove they understand what they have been taught.
On the line are their high school diplomas.
Freshmen statewide must show proficiency in five Maine Learning Results subject areas in order to earn a diploma.
BREWER — Report cards for local kindergarten through fifth-grade pupils no longer will have As, Bs or Cs anymore, but instead will be marked with 1s, 2s and 3s.
Brewer School Department is changing the way it grades pupils to be more compatible with the Maine Learning Results and eventually will adopt the new standards-based report cards for all grades, Superintendent Betsy Webb said earlier this month.
25 years ago — Sept. 25, 1989
OLD TOWN — “There is nothing wrong if you are a great power and acting like it,” Karen Elliott-House, past foreign editor of the Wall Street Journal, told the Old Town Rotary Club at a recent meeting.
The Pulitzer Prize winning Elliott-House, who is now vice president international of Dow Jones and Co., shared some of her views on several international issues, including how she would handle the hostage crisis in the Middle East.
Elliott-House said that if she were in charge, “I would create a target list” of strategic points in the Middle East that would be bombed over a certain period of time, until the American hostages are released. Elliott-House said that terrorists “are using hostages to torment us.”
FRANKFORT — The fishway at Marsh Stream Dam here will be dedicated to the memory of sportsman Leo W. Gilmore on Sept. 30.
Born in Roscoe, New York, Gilmore lived more than 40 years in Frankfort and became well known as an Atlantic salmon fisherman, He held membership in the Penobscot, Veazie and Eddington salmon clubs. He was an expert in fly tying, a skill he learned from Harry Darby and Arthur York, and which he taught to other.
From the tome Gilmore began salmon fishing, his dream was to have a fishway at Marsh Stream Dam to enable slamon to continue farther upstream and promote better spawning grounds.
HERMON — Simply Pure organic baby food should be available in Shop ‘n Save supermarkets by Thanksgiving, according to Sarah Redfield,owner of the Hermon-based company.
Terming her news “pretty exciting,” Redfield said final arrangements with Hannaford Brothers still need to be worked out, but a second shift already has been added to her factory in the former Pleasant Hill Dairy on Route 222.
50 years ago — Sept. 25, 1964
BANGOR — Roland “Chan” Chandler, executive secretary of the Bangor YMCA, is marking one anniversary this month and getting ready for another one in 1967.
It was 20 years ago that Chandler took over as principal executive of the city’s YMCA board, and before the end of the year, he said, the organization will have some groundwork laid for its centennial, coming up in two and one-half years.
Although Chandler is slow to admit it, his two decades have been tremendous years of growth for the Bangor YMCA. In 1944, when Chandler cane here, the Y had an annual budget of $26,515 and an endowment fund of $147,922. Today those figures are $140, 434 and $367,811. The total assets of the Y have increased by more than 300 percent in those years and now total better than 1 million dollars.
VEAZIE — From five to six hundred Boy Scouts are expected to attend a Camporee being held at Graystone Farm in, according to officials of the Penobscot Valley Scout District.
The Camporee is being held on land donated by Freeland Jones of Veazie for the activity. It was planned by Master Sgt. Ernest Dunn of Dow Air Force Base.
100 years ago — Sept. 25, 1914
OLD TOWN — The citizens of Old Town will call for their mail Friday morning at the new post office in Center Street as Postmaster A.F. Averill and assistants moved on Thursday night their supplies from the Hamilton building on Main Street, which it has occupied for many years.
Work was begun on the new building April 2, 1913, and the depth of the excavation has been nearly reached when four boiling springs were discovered which were drained into the sewer. This delayed the work two months.
The building, which is two stories high, is of Colonial style and the material used is Concord granite to the first floor and above this to the cornice is Indiana limestone. The main entrance is of carved stone and finished with pilasters, architrave and grills of massive cast bronze in Greek pattern.
BUCKSPORT — The three masted schooner T. F. Jones with the cargo of coal, arrived here Monday and is discharging the cargo for T. M. Nicholson.
BANGOR — Develan’s comment is now visible in the northwestern heavens in the early evening. It has been reported several times in the past few weeks and has very lately become visible to the naked eye.
Compiled by Ardeana Hamlin